The Frying Pan Tower is a decommissioned Coast Guard light station built on the tip of Frying Pan Shoals, an unusually shallow stretch of water running for 30 miles from the tower west to the ...

replacing the Bald Head Lighthouse as the main navigation aid for Cape Fear and Frying Pan Shoals. It stood near the cape on Bald Head Island. Orton's Plantation or Orton's Point Light was built ...

The Frying Pan Shoals Light-Vessel first patrolled the area in 1854. It was removed in the Civil War, replaced in 1865 and replaced again in 1966 by a "Texas Tower," better known as Frying Pan Tower.

The Frying Pan Lightship blows a final whistle as it hands off its duty as the light of Frying Pan Shoals to Frying Pan Tower on Nov. 24, 1964. [PHOTO COURTESY OF DR. ROBERT M. FALES COLLECTION ...

And in the ocean off the Brunswick County community of Southport, guests can spend a weekend in a decommissioned light tower that once kept ships from running aground in Frying Pan Shoals.

The tower marks the start of Frying Pan Shoals, a skillet-shaped stretch of ... I find Neal putting together a red-and-white beacon light that will shine atop the tower for the first time since ...

As decades passed, the Frying Pan Shoals Light Station became outdated and was eventually abandoned by the Coast Guard by 2004. Richard Neal purchased the Tower at auction and turned it into a ...

Frying Pan Tower sits 135 feet ... built in 1964 by the U.S. Coast Guard as a light station to help warn ships of the potentially dangerous Frying Pan Shoals. It was expected to last 50 years ...

During the search, the tug started taking on water and sank around 2:30 a.m. on January 25 about 39 miles off the Cape Fear coast near the Frying Pan Shoals light tower. The U.S. Coast Guard and ...